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Show mo 83 full of holes; Joseph was found a short distance from the wagon. Robert Berry's wife lay across the wagon tongue face up and stripped; she had been outraged and horribly mutilated.17 The fury of the settlers could be just as intense. In the st shocking outrage of the entire war, the citizens of Circleville were carried away. Even Gottfredson's strenuously pro-Mormon account includes the following: Although the Indian depredations were raging in all directions and many murders had been committed by Black Hawk and his band the year before, the Piute Indians still remained in Circle Valley professing friendship, although they were mistrusted by many of the settlers. Some of their actions were so suggestive that the whites felt themselves in danger every moment, not knowing when a break would be made by these savages on the settlement. On Monday, April 21, 1866, an express reached Circleville with the news that two of the pretended friendly Piutes had shot and killed a white man who belonged to a party of militia stationed some distance up the Sevier River at Fort Sanford. This fort, which had been built that spring by the militia under Silas Sanford Smith and his men about half way between Circleville and Panguitch. Word was immediately sent to the people of Circleville to protect themselves against the Indians who were camped in their valley. On receiving this admonition, the men of Circleville settlement were called together for consultation,- and after considerable deliberation it was concluded as the best policy to place the Indians encamped near their settlement under arrest. Consequently, all the able-bodied men of Circleville were mustered into service, some on horseback and some on foot. Thus organized they proceeded to the Indian camp, which they surrounded after dark. They had no trouble or occasion, however, to use force as James T. S. and Jackson Allred went into the Indian camp and persuaded the savages to come to the meeting house in Circleville to hear a letter read, which had just been received. All the Indians complied willingly with this request, with the exception of 17peter Gottfredson, Indian Depredations in Utah, Second Edition, (Salt Lake City, Private Printing, 1969), pp. 182-183. |